Courtney+Vernon

 ​ Slowmation Reflection __ **Constructive evaluation and analysing the slowmation movie** __

** What did you get out of it? **  I got good experience with the program Movie Maker, and a new respect for the people who make clay movies. ** How did you work as a group? **  We worked as a group by sharing out the responsibilities between everybody. All of us helped out most of the time, producing a movie that we all enjoyed. ** What was the end product like? **  I think the end product was professional and well done, and reflects the work that we did and the time that we spent on it. **Did you achieve the learning outcome that you had originally planned?** I think we achieved the learning outcome which was to create an educational movie.


 * Google sketch Up TASC wheel**


 * Gather/Organise**

What do I know about this? Put your comments here: I know a little bit about this topic as I have done lots of Dance Shows and I’ve seen quite a few theatres. I have also used sketch up before so I know a little bit about skechup as well. I haven’t really encountered anything like this before. Mr Gordan came into class and gave us information on what we will need in the performing arts centre and answered some of our questions about it. I will be using the skills I have in Google skechup and my knowledge on how auditoriums work
 * 1) What do I know about the topic?
 * 2) Have I encountered anything like this before?
 * 3) What questions can I ask to help me understand what is required?
 * 4) What skills and knowledge will I be using?

** Identify ** What is the task? Put your comments here I’m going to make a performing arts centre for Dio. My goals are to make the best state of the art performing arts centre that I can in the time I’m given and to follow. I need the program Google skechup and knowledge on theatres. I will need good skills in Skechup as well. At the moment we are investigating different performing arts centres and what they need to be successful. Some of the obstacles that will occur might be the time constraints and our current skills we have. I will draw a diagram of the performing arts centre so I can visualise what I’m doing. When I have got a performing arts centre that has meet the requirements and I have finished off the task wheel and all the work required. ** Generate ** How many ideas can I think of? Limit ideas to two or three. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of each idea. Is there another way to do this? What resources (books, websites, etc) have I been provided with? What do other people think about this?
 * 1) What am I trying to do? What are my goals?
 * 2) What do I need in order to do this?
 * 3) Explain the task in your own words
 * 4) Investigate some examples.
 * 5) What are the obstacles?
 * 6) Can I draw a diagram that will help me to visualise my work?
 * 7) How will I know that I have completed the task?

Put your comments here I have 2 ideas. The first idea flows better than the 2nd idea and fits more in it. The second plan includes lockers and more offices. I think there is another way to do this but I don’t want to take out all of the top courts and i don’t really want to cut into the field as it is quite small already. We were provided with some websites about some other performing arts centres that fit quite closely to the criteria that we were using. I think they think that it will be a challenge but is quite a cool task. ** Decide ** Which is the best idea? Explain your reasons for the decision. What the arguments for and against each idea? Which idea is the best one for completing the task? What is my plan?

Put your comments here My best idea is idea 1 as it have nearly all of the criteria were as the 2 idea does not. The 2nd idea is not a very good plan as it is very higgledy piggledy and would be hard to make so that it flows. ** Implement ** Let's do it! Am I making progress through the plan? Am I doing this correctly? Do I need to revise my plan? As you continue, you may discover facts that require changing the plan. Put your comments here I’m in the progress of making my Theatre. So far I think I’m doing it correctly but it is still very hard. I cannot create components and for some reason my laptop has stopped creating them. I over came this by just moving things Indivualy instead of together. My plan was a lot smaller than I thought it would be so I do need to resize everything. It turns out that I will only need 2 levels instead of three as I have a lot of free space. ** Evaluate ** How well did I do? Did I complete the task as set originally set out? Did I solve the problem? What have I done? What have I done really well? Could I have done it better? What areas need improvement? Am I ready to communicate my ideas or show/display my work to others?

Put your comments here

I completed the task that was originally set out. To create a performing arts centre for Dio. On the way I came across quite a few problems but I problem solved and overcame those problems. One of the problems that occurred was that my sketch up file was becoming so big that it would be soooo slow I over came this problem by not clicking on the doc all the time but waiting for it to finish what it was doing before then do something else. Another problem was that my theatre was quite out of proportion compared to the rest of my performing arts centre. I over came this problem by making the theatre smaller and leaving instead of starting the whole thing again. The aim of this program was to create a performing arts centre for Dio and that is what I have done. I have created a 3 level performing arts centre for Dio that fits the criteria that was given. I think I have made a really good theatre and back stage as I think it works well and look good. I think I could have done better private instrument lesson rooms as they do not look very good. The area I needed improvement on was making the walls as I struggled to make them even. I’m now ready to present my work to the class ** Communicate ** Let's tell someone! Who can I tell? Who is my audience? What is the best way to present this to my audience? What should I say to ensure my audience understands? How do I interest my audience in my ideas? Do I have the right information to get my message across to my audience?

Put your comments here The people I’m going to present my performing arts centre for Dio to will be my class mates they are going to be my audience. I’m going to present my performing arts centre in a PowerPoint as I think this is the best way. I need to make sure my audience understands what my aim was and what I have done to achieve my aim. To interest my audience in my ideas I will make my power point fun and exciting as this will keep my audience captivated (Hopefully). I think I have the right information to get my message across to the audience. ** Learn from experience ** What have I learned? How would I do this again? What would I change to improve my performance? How have I improved since that last time I worked on a similar task? What knowledge have I learned? Can this knowledge be used elsewhere? How has my thinking changed as a result of this work? What skills have I learned and developed? Can these skills be applied to other subjects/activities? What problems did I have to solve? How did I use the strengths of others to help me?

Put your comments here I think I would make the different levels on different sketch up docs. I think I’ve improved on the quality as last time I did a project like this I didn’t have a great program like sketch up. I’ve learnt a lot about theatres and how much thinking has to go in to making something for a school as before I thought it wouldn’t be too hard but there are actually quite a few requirements that you have to fit into a very limited space. I think I can use my new knowledge in lots of areas where designing is required. I think I’ve got a more opened mind on how to design thing where I use to think that I only needed on idea but with this project you need more than one idea as it was such a restricted space. I have learned lots of skill for Google sketch up like how to use the follow me tool, lots of short cut keys to do things quicker and heaps of other things that help me enhance my project. I can use my new skills in any project that I need to use Google sketch up or anything I need to design like in science when we need to create a garden. I had quite a few problems that occurred during this project like my theatre being very out of proportion compared to the rest of my theatre and my doc becoming so slow I overcame these problems by making re making some of my theatre and re size the rest so it was the same size as the rest of my theatre. For it being slow there was much I could do about it but tried to not confuse my laptop by over clicking on it or trying to do something else while it was still finishing something. Some of my class mates helped teach me how to do some of the things to help me make things better or we help each other with research.

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__Google Earth Project Evaluation__
= ** How difficult/easy it was – whether you ran into difficulties and problem solved, needed assistance? ** = I found the project Very difficult when I ran into problems I found it hard and they were not easy fixes. I found that it was quite often I was in need of assistance. We had lots of problems like the movies wouldn’t lode onto voice thread we solved this reopening voice thread 3 times and just trying and trying to load them on and finally they slowly loaded on. Other problems that occurred were when we couldn’t find YouTube videos so we had to make our own. When the voice thread took a whole lesson to load up one video so we had to load the videos up and lunch and at home and the next day in tutor group and the next lesson, when we had realised that we had done our pinpoints on different laptops and we needed to find a way to transfer them onto Sarah’s laptop, and when the voice thread wasn’t putting the voice over the video so we had to change the format of the video. So on The last double we where nearly ready to throw our laptops out the window. But once we had finished if felt really good =** What made you chose the places and were there any issues regarding the choices? **=

We chose the places depending on weather we had been there or not or if we thought they were special or important. For the ones in Melbourne we did those because i was born there and I had been to them. For the ones in New Zealand we try to pick one where we had been and found interesting like Kelly Tarltons and Howic Historical village. Sarah Loves hockey and horse so we did the New Zealand Hockey Federation and we also did the Melbourne Cup (Horse Riding race). The issues with choosing where that lots of people wanted the same places as us and we even had a double up at one stage so it was a challenge to find a place before someone else took it but once we found our 10 places other problems occurred =** How well did you work with your partner? **=

Hmmmmm I would love to say yes we worked well together but to be completely honest we didn’t work as well as we could have. I think that we both like to have control over the project and be the leader. We both had ideas and opinions and we didn’t know how to use all those ideas. =** Did you pull your weight in the project or was it one sided? **=

I don’t think the work was evenly spread out between the two of us. It was hard as it was all on one laptop. It’s not like we didn’t want to share it evenly but every time I asked they declined as it was easier being on her laptop. In future we should have planned the workload at prior to starting the project and had each definite goals to achieve. =** What were the good/bad things about this project? **= The good things about this project was when we finished it, i felt like I learned a lot. It was enjoyable using Google Earth once you got the hang of it and I liked finding out about different and interesting places in the world and in New Zealand. The things that were difficult was using voice thread, it was very confusing trying to get the voice thread onto Google Earth.



We got our videos from Youtube and our Pictures from google

My poster is about not clicking on advertisement. You shouldn’t click on advertisement because they are often linked to hackers or virus. I decided to do my poster on not clicking on advertisement because I thought not many people would be doing it. The thing I like most about my poster is the background. I got the pictures of advertisement from websites where there were lots of advertisement is on the side, I used the sniping tool to get them. I hope you like it! J